"Trying to exploit the mobility of Outer Dao cultivators, who gather all their divine might within themselves, to concentrate your superior forces against me? You certainly have that abacus clicking nicely."
"Puppet Masters have fought the Outer Dao for years, with countless battles to draw on. How could any Puppet Master with the means fail to prepare?"
Those without the means... truly had no options, but any Puppet Master who had them would do his utmost to guard against this tactic.
Unfortunately for the enemy, Li Chen had been lucky enough to find the remains of a Giant Kun and obtain its Origin Blood Essence. His attainments in Void Transfer were far from shallow.
Li Chen sat on his Mechanized Flying Chair, his eyes half closed as though he were dozing. His will had already descended through the communication network into the void spanning tens of thousands of li around Chess Mountain.
At that moment, the second Boundary Gate was increasing its deployment rate, delivering another group of powerful combatants into position.
These were neither Li Chen's Kun Blood Legion nor the garrison forces of Guangyun and Heavenly Dragon City, but the four Core Formation-level combatants under his command: the Great Demon Stone Octopus, the Vajra Divine Ape, the Three-Eyed Demon Tiger, and the Centipede Heavenly Dragon.
In Guangyun Domain, the Yu Xiao Tiger leased from the Golden Sun Gate and the Flame Fang Battle Puppet seized from the Mei Family remained stationed at home as a precaution rather than joining the campaign. But the Core Formation-level forces he normally kept in reserve and had not deployed for a long time—the Strange Beast Legion of modified beasts from the Azure Billow Immortal Abode—had now committed all their high-level combatants.
Alongside them appeared more than a dozen modified strange beasts of